Jagged Environment

Science

Mass extinctions
Science
Environmental and social time bombs
Origins
Progenesis - the simple to the complex
The stress of oxygen - antioxidants
Incorporation of organic building blocks into primitive cells
Hydrocarbon oxidation
Evolution of cell membranes
"Eat dirt"
A role for science?
Lifting the lid
Internal clock
Consequences
The influence of the extra-terrestrial
Essentials
Evolution of the individual
Can we save the planet?
Gaia
Predetermination - "fate"

Science is guilty of over-reductionism. We will not find overall reality - the driving interplay of complex systems - by delving into increasing minutiae and in their increasingly resplendent isolation. Real truth is to be found in synergy, not isolation.

“Science” reveals less of the overall picture with each advance. Real Science (as scientia: knowledge) is only found at the interface of synergy, in the interacting skins of compartmentalised Nature. e.g. phenomena such as ozone loss cannot be understood in isolation, belonging to more complex and interconnected agenda.

Copyright © 2001 Chris James

Last updated 12 March, 2005